Word: mae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stars can write their own plays, though Noel Coward in This Year of Grace, Mae West in Diamond Lit and George M. Cohan, in past years, have been able to do so. Jane Cowl remains a better actress than a playwright. The Jealous Moon is so sweet that it excites a mental toothache...
...Squealer. Among the more spirited of Manhattan's antiquarians is Mark Linder; he wrote a play from which lamed Mae West evolved the picturesque excitement of Diamond Lil; now he has scratched up further blood and thunder about San Francisco's underworld, 22 years ago. It is a candid melodrama, of vice rampant and virtue triumphant; yet its most bitter climaxes are meant to be accepted and enjoyed in a somewhat mocking spirit. The audience will gloat, not shiver, when a character says: "I'll get you for this, Logan, if it takes me twenty years...
Show People,* famed ones, William S. Hart, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Norma Talmadge, John Gilbert, Mae Murray, Rod La Rocque, Leatrice Joy, Aileen Pringle, Estelle Taylor, Claire Windsor were paid $7.50 (regular pay per day for extras) and given a good lunch by Marion Davies for showing their faces on her location. Only she and William Haines were in working clothes that day. taking the last scenes of a comedy about a girl who lets the movies swell her head. Hollywood directors distrust pictures that turn the camera on itself, believing illusion is an asset always more valuable than intimacy...
...room on wheels. She is not married but plots to get other people married. When Lindbergh visited Los Angeles, she was the only cinema star who entertained him. At parties she gives imitations of Lillian Gish (in suspense), Jetta Goudal (with horsehair), the Prince of Wales (fatigued), Mae Murray (lip) and herself. Two years ago, becoming 30, she turned comedian...
...heart of the U. S. public was not the little girl who jumped over a cliff in Birth of a Nation. Many cinema fans, their memories bemused by thousands of flickering faces, have lost dollar bets on that fact. The girl who jumped over the cliff was Mae Marsh. Other bets have concerned the sisters' ages. Lillian is 32. Dorothy is 30. Just as pretty as Lillian (5 ft. 4 in. tall, red-blonde hair), cleverer perhaps, certainly shrewder, Dorothy wanted romance to be concrete, loved while Lillian acted, married (James Rennie, dark-haired "legit" actor) while Lillian stayed...